hi, does anyone know if Norton Utilities can help with a C drive that’s red even if I haven’t added anything and have changed the location for all files to D drive?
@Angela_Baggi Are you -
Referring to your C:\ drive being low on storage space?
What exactly do you mean that you “changed the location for all files to D drive”? Did you copy ALL the files on drive C:\ onto drive D:\ or ?
Please review this Microsoft site for possible solutions:
If the C: drive is showing as red that means it doesn’t have much free space left, see below to increase space.
Free Up Space - Increase Hard Drive Space
The following procedure cleans up files associated with your user account. You can also use Disk Cleanup to clean up all the files on your computer.
Click the Start button, in the search box, type Disk Cleanup, then click Disk Cleanup.
In the Drives list, click the hard disk drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
On the Disk Cleanup tab, select the file types you want to delete.
Note: To Remove all System Restore Points Except the Most Recent - Click “Clean up System Files” and you will get another tab called More Options. Now click More Options, then click “Clean up” under “System Restore and Shadow Copies” then confirm the deletion.
- Click OK on the bottom of the Disk Cleanup window and in the message that appears, click Delete files.
Reduce the amount of space allocated for System Restore.
Start–>Control Panel–>System and Security–>System
Next click on the ‘System protection’ link located in the upper left.
In the 'System Properties? window click on the ‘System Protection’ tab.
Locate the ‘Protection Settings’ box and select/click on the drive letter (usually C:)
Now click on the ‘Configure’ button to change the ‘Disk Space Usage’ Restore Settings.
Move the slider to reduce the amount of disk space System Protection can use (min. 3GB).
Click the ‘Apply’ and then the ‘OK’ button after you have adjusted the disk space.
Uninstall Programs You Don’t Need
Click Start, then click Control Panel
Click Add/Remove Programs and uninstall programs you don’t want
Reduce Pagefile Size
Open control panel and choose system and security.
Click on system
Click on Advanced system settings.
Click on advanced tab.
In the performance section click on settings.
Click on Advanced and choose Change in the Virtual Memory section.
Uncheck Automatically Manage Pagefile size
Select Custom and enter new size (don’t go under 512MB) in both boxes and press Set.
Click OK and restart your computer
Turn of the Hibernation setting
If you don’t use hibernation you can turn it off and free up disk space:
Start → All Programs → Accessories
Right click CMD.exe and click “run as admin”
type: powercfg -H off
Press Enter
Exit and restart your computer
SA
Thank you very much for your suggestions. I’ve done all of them and my C drive is not red but still only 17 GB free of 118 and my D drive is always empty despite me having moved (copy&paste) many documents from OS to DATA drive; if I click on it it shows all the docs I copied (these have been deleted from the bin) I’m not savvy on computer stuff and have learned everything as I encountered problems. I should get a new PC but it still works and I’ll wait until it becomes inoperable. I’d like to stop paying for Microsoft every year (always more expensive!) and have Office instead but am unsure whether I’ll lose my docs in the process. Tha’s another question… Thanks again.
@Angela_Baggi Following up regarding your status after far too long. I forgot previously to ask, what OS you are using, and what is its version / build. IF you copied your documents to drive D: rather than selecting them, selecting cut, then pasted to drive D: the files will still remain on drive C: because you only copied them not actually moved them. My recommendation is DO NOT use Norton Utilities, you would be taking to big of a risk with it rendering your computer not usable at all. That has happened in more than one instance with other users around the forums.
SA
Bare ta din tid med norton utilities du skal bare vente 26.2 og 26.3 laver nye opdateringer der jeg kan ikke sige mere men der kommer nye ting i de patch men hvad det er 100% er jeg ikke sikker på men bare vent plus der er jo også 26.4 der er en big som er extrem stor med meget i den kan jo også få noget der kan ikke sige mere
@globus5000 The OP is asking if NU can help with a full hard drive. Moving files that don’t seem to change the free space count. That answer is an absolute NO. As per others who are / were not tech savy and used NU to correct issues they either had or were warned they had, their computers were rendered not usable. My suggestion to the OP was on the side of using caution and not use NU for that reason. It has nothing to do with any updates that may or may not be coming for that product. 
SA
nej men det vil fix det i de næste opdateringer da den næste opdateringer kan løse fejlene som der er så det er faktisk en løsning men jeg vil stadig vente til 26.2 da der er nogle dumme fejl i norton utilities lige nu så du ikke løber ind i dem jeg kan godt sige dem til dig og de er ikke gode men vent til den og du er redet men det er helt op til dig vad du vil 